For thirty minutes, under the punishing midday sun, Taiwan’s capital Taipei rehearsed for war. Presidential alerts began blaring on cell phones at 1:30pm on Thursday across this city of more than two ...
Sirens sounded at 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) to mark the start of the mandatory street evacuation drills, which effectively shut towns and cities across northern Taiwan for 30 minutes. In Taipei's Ximending ...